October Project: Joan Miro

Project Attributes:

• Abstract Art
• Elements of Art - line, shape, color, balance
• Brief background of Joan Miro
• VTS (Visual Thinking Strategy) = Dissecting a Miro painting through student observation and discussion
• Where do artists get their ideas?
• Identification of lines, shapes and colors in a variety of Miro paintings

Resources:

• Miro art cards & Smartboard presentation

Art Materials:

• Black sharpies
• Watercolor pencils

Student Work: 

September Project: Lines

Feature Artist: Wassily Kandinsky

Project Goals:

• Exploring types of lines (worksheet)
• Expressive lines – defined, comparing & contrasting expressive lines – how do we “feel” when we look at a picture that has the same line repeated?
• Lines in our world

Art Materials:

• Oil Pastels & Tempura Cakes (K),
• Construction Paper & Paint (1)

Resources:

• Video: “Getting To Know Lines”, www.gettingtoknow.com
• Book: “Lines That Wiggle”, Candace Whitman

Art Vocabulary: Resist, expressive lines

Student Work:

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